Muqaddimah

Book by Ibn Khaldun, written in 1377

The Muqaddimah (Arabic: مقدّمة meaning "the introduction") is a 14th-century Arabic treatise on historiography, sociology, and the philosophy of history written by Ibn Khaldun. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology, demography, and cultural history. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, historiography, the philosophy of history, economics, political theory, and ecology.

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